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It’s okay, my brother’s way of getting hooked on programming was downloading those types of cheats for Counterstrike, and reverse-engineering them to strip out

It’s okay, my brother’s way of getting hooked on programming was downloading those types of cheats for Counterstrike, and reverse-engineering them to strip out the bad functionality. It’s not so much keyloggers as running into the cheat creator in a game, and they get mad and say “I’m going to remotely crash your PC watch!” and then getting even more mad when it doesn’t work.

Loughla 2y ago
Counterstrike was my first ever introduction to real life cheating. We used to do LAN parties and play mostly that. One guy came and talked about how good he was and, to his benefit, he was really really good. Then when the guys who were taking a break started watching him, they saw that he was tracking players as they went across the other side of the map, and his gun was firing as soon as they were in view. Headshots every time. It blew my mind for two reasons. 1. It was possible. 2. This was a party with zero point of winning. There was no prize. Why cheat?
junon 2y ago
Yep. I learned Java just to hack a math program in middle school. It had a hint button that would eventually give you the answer but would dock your progress by quite a bit if you used it at all. I modified it to run the "solve answer" method without reporting back to the server at a random interval that was just human enough, and played Minecraft in the meantime. In my defense, I knew the material just fine. The program was very anal about whitespace, parenthesis, order of terms (even if it was inconsequential), so most of the homework time was spent fighting with it instead of testing my math skill. The grade for it was also pass fail, whereas the tests were what mattered (and I dared not cheat on those). Ended up learning a valuable skill at the same time, so I still consider it a win.
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Loughla 2y ago

Counterstrike was my first ever introduction to real life cheating. We used to do LAN parties and play mostly that. One guy came and talked about how good he was and, to his benefit, he was really really good. Then when the guys who were taking a break started watching him, they saw that he was tracking players as they went across the other side of the map, and his gun was firing as soon as they were in view. Headshots every time. It blew my mind for two reasons. 1. It was possible. 2. This was a party with zero point of winning. There was no prize. Why cheat?

junon 2y ago

Yep. I learned Java just to hack a math program in middle school. It had a hint button that would eventually give you the answer but would dock your progress by quite a bit if you used it at all. I modified it to run the "solve answer" method without reporting back to the server at a random interval that was just human enough, and played Minecraft in the meantime. In my defense, I knew the material just fine. The program was very anal about whitespace, parenthesis, order of terms (even if it was inconsequential), so most of the homework time was spent fighting with it instead of testing my math skill. The grade for it was also pass fail, whereas the tests were what mattered (and I dared not cheat on those). Ended up learning a valuable skill at the same time, so I still consider it a win.

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